Long-tailed Duck
Great Northern Diver, Black-throated Diver
Black-necked Grebe
Great White Egret
Marsh Harrier
4,000 Knot
Bearded Tit
Siberian Chiffchaff
Black Redstart
Lesser Redpoll
BRISTOL
Coombe Dingle:
Garden - 2 Blue Tit, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Blackcap (f), Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch,10 Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
1 Chiffchaff - lagoon 2, 1 Black Redstart - briefly,
Coalpit Heath:
6 LBB Gull, 2 Herring Gull, 35+ Woodpigeon, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 14 Magpie, 1 Jay, 9 Carrion Crow, 1 Goldcrest, 12+ Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 4 Skylark, 1 m Blackcap (in garden, first of winter), 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Treecreeper, 4 Wren, c28 Starling, 5 Blackbird, c50 +22 Fieldfare, 2 Song Thrush, c10 Robin, 3 Dunnock, 23 House Sparrow, 17 Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, c12 Chaffinch, c52 Linnet, 22 Goldfinch, 4 Yellowhammer.
NORTH SOMERSET
Portbury Wharf:
4,000 Knot and 1,000 Dunlin in spectacular flight over foreshore near Chapel Pill early morning
Clevedon-Yeo:
Pier - 2 Raven, 1 f Black Redstart
Portbury Wharf:
4,000 Knot and 1,000 Dunlin in spectacular flight over foreshore near Chapel Pill early morning
Clevedon-Yeo:
Pier - 2 Raven, 1 f Black Redstart
Clevedon Garden update - 7 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Great Tit, m +f Blackcap, 7 Goldfinch all regular visitors to feeders
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| 15-01-20 Goosander, Blind Yeo (Paul Brian Chapman) |
Blind Yeo - 4 (1 m) Goosander, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Kingfisher, 1 pair Stonechat
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| 15-01-20 Water Rail, Backwell Lake (Gwen Thomas) |
1 Water Rail, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, large flock of Redwing, 3 Chaffinch
Becket's Lane - 1m Bullfinch
Worle:
Garden feeders - 8 Greenfinch
BELOW M4 & BANES
No reports
RESERVOIRS
Barrow Tanks:
No 1 - drake Long-tailed Duck still present
No 3 - 1 pr Goosander, 1 Great Northern Diver, 1 Black-throated Diver
'The best place to look for the divers is from the straight section of the perimeter path on the north side, east of the sluice/tower. The GND is almost always here. The BTD is much more mobile but rarely strays west of the sluice.'
Other species seen today: Mallard, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Cormorant, Buzzard, Coot, 1 Common Sandpiper, BH Gull, GBB Gull, Common Gull, Herring Gull, Wood Pigeon, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Great Tit, Goldcrest, Blackbird, 2 Mistle Thrush, Robin, 1 Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail
Blagdon Lake:
1 Greylag Goose, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Raven, 4 Chiffchaff, 3 Lesser Redpoll
Chew Valley Lake
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| 15-01-20 Siberian Chiffchaff, Bittern Trail, CVL (George Stacey) |
1 Chiffchaff, 2 Siberian Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Bullfinch
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| 15-01-20 Black-necked Grebe, Stratford, CVL (Robin Morton) |
Mallard, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Goldeneye, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 3 Great White Egret, Marsh Harrier, Coot, GBB Gull, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, LTTit, 2 Bearded Tit (m +f), Goldcrest, Wren, Treecreeper, Robin
'Somebody has hung up a load of feeders on the path - looks like Ginger Baker's drum kit!'
Reports: Paul Brian Chapman, Anthony Cook, Sean Davies, Alastair Fraser, Mike Jackson, Iris Langson, Phil Quinn, Dean Reeves, George Stacey, Howard Taffs, Gwen Thomas, Bri Thompson, Keith Vinicombe, blagdonlakebirds OPS Birding
